Chronology of Coverage

Apr. 7, 2015

Mar. 31, 2015

Ugandan senior prosecutor Joan Kagezi is shot and killed by two men on motorcycle while driving home; police think attack is connected to her role as chief prosecutor in trial involving 2010 bombing by Shabab militants during World Cup finals. MORE

Jan. 28, 2015

United Nations' World Food Program, struggling with funding problems, cuts in half amount of food rations given to nearly 150,000 South Sudanese refugees in Uganda. MORE

Jan. 27, 2015

Lord's Resistance Army rebel commander Dominic Ongwen makes first public appearance at International Criminal Court; Ongwen has been accused of murder and enslavement. MORE

Jan. 14, 2015

Dominic Ongwen, captured Ugandan rebel commander in Lord's Resistance Army, will be turned over to International Criminal Court at the Hague; he is accused of helping to plan massacres and kidnap children; army leader Joseph Kony is at large. MORE

Nov. 19, 2014

Uganda is investigating theft of almost 3,000 pounds of ivory from the vaults of its state-run Uganda Wildlife Authority; five staff members are suspended. MORE

Nov. 7, 2014

Uganda’s military suspends 15 soldiers who were peacekeepers in Somalia over various allegations of misconduct. MORE

Sep. 14, 2014

Ugandan authorities uncover so-called terrorist cell run by Somali militant Islamist group Shabab, saying they believe it was planning an imminent attack; Uganda has been the scene of militant attacks in recent years as African Union peacekeepers wage battle against Shabab fighters in Somalia. MORE

Aug. 10, 2014

Ugandans stage gay pride parade on beach, first public event in support of gay rights since Ugandan court invalidated anti-gay law on Aug 1. MORE

Aug. 2, 2014

Ugandan court strikes down Anti-Homosexuality Act, law that punishes some homosexual behavior with life in prison; panel of five judges rules on narrow technical grounds, preserving possibility that measure could be altered and revived; punitive law has strained Uganda's relations with the West. MORE

Jul. 7, 2014

More than 50 people are killed in clashes between Uganda's security forces and tribal militia near country's border with Democratic Republic of Congo; attacks take place in Kasese, Ntoroko and Bundibugyo, three Ugandan districts with a history of antigovernment insurgency and tensions among rival tribes competing for limited natural resources in mountainous region of western Uganda. MORE

Jul. 4, 2014

American Embassy in Uganda says it has been warned of specific threat of attack to country's main airport; warning is one of several recent alarms in restive East Africa, where governments have sought to counter threats, particularly those by Shabab militant movement. MORE

Jun. 20, 2014

Obama administration announces additional punitive steps against Uganda in response to the country’s new law criminalizing homosexuality. MORE

Jun. 12, 2014

United Nations General Assembly choses Sam Kutesa, Uganda’s foreign minister, as its next president, bypassing concerns of rights advocates and Western officials over Uganda’s law criminalizing homosexuality. MORE

Apr. 5, 2014

Ugandan police officers raid offices of American-financed project that offers services to AIDS patients; move appears to be the first public action to enforce a new anti-homosexuality law. MORE

Mar. 25, 2014

Human rights advocates question the Obama administration's support for advancing civil liberties after its decision to increase military aid to government of Uganda Pres Yoweri Museveni to help hunt down rebel commander Joseph Kony; administration had said that it would reconsider its relationship with Uganda after it passed a law criminalizing homosexuality. MORE

Mar. 25, 2014

Ugandan police say death toll from boat accident on Lake Albert has reached 107; most of the victims were Congolese refugees returning home from a resettlement camp. MORE

Mar. 24, 2014

Pres Obama is sending more troops and military aircraft to Uganda as part of long-running effort to hunt down Joseph Kony, fugitive rebel commander who is believed to have been hiding in the jungles of central Africa for years. MORE

Mar. 17, 2014

Op-Ed article by Denver David Robinson describes how Ugandan tabloid Red Pepper published without permission his photographs and an article about gay Ugandans after Pres Yoweri Museveni criminalized homosexuality; states his intention to file suit against tabloid, which put Ugandans in article at risk, for copyright infringement; holds in order to achieve lasting change, sometimes it is necessary to step forward and even act alone. MORE

Feb. 27, 2014

Secretary of State John Kerry condemns the antigay measure signed into law in Uganda, saying it is as serious a moral offense as anti-Semitism in 1930s Germany or apartheid in white-led South Africa; Uganda law imposes harsh sentences for homosexual acts, including life imprisonment in some cases. MORE

Feb. 25, 2014

Ugandan Pres Yoweri Museveni signs into law a bill imposing harsh sentences for homosexual acts, including life imprisonment in some cases; move comes after Nigerian Pres Goodluck Jonathan took similar steps in his own country, although the Ugandan law seems even tougher. MORE

Feb. 16, 2014

Jan. 18, 2014

Ugandan Pres Yoweri Museveni has refused to sign a bill that would impose harsh sentences for gay people, temporarily sidestepping a clash with foreign donors who have condemned the legislative push for years. MORE

Dec. 31, 2013

Ugandan Pres Yoweri Museveni threatens to intervene in South Sudan if rebels there keep fighting, introducing the possibility of a broader regional conflict. MORE

Dec. 21, 2013

Ugandan Parliament announces that it has approved legislation imposing harsh penalties on gay people, including life imprisonment for 'aggravated homosexuality.' MORE

Nov. 22, 2013

Speculation has increased that Joseph Kony, elusive Lord's Resistance Army commander, may negotiate his surrender, ending a long, murderous rampage; Kony has been indicted on war crimes and has been hiding in jungles in the Central African Republican. MORE

Nov. 8, 2013

Ugandan military has begun process of disarming large numbers of M23 rebels from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo; rebel group has said it is giving up its armed struggle. MORE

Oct. 29, 2013

Breast cancer epidemic in Uganda is being made worse by sluggish health care system, drug shortages and inadequate facilities, resulting in women being treated too late, improperly or not at all; victims, typically resigned or silent, are beginning to speak out and share information. MORE

Aug. 25, 2013

Look column presents images of discarded portraits from Gulu Real Art Studio in Uganda, which feature subjects' faces that had been removed for use in ID photos. MORE

Jul. 15, 2013

Uganda Red Cross says more than 60,000 residents of Democratic Republic of Congo have fled to Uganda after rebel attack on town near the border; continuing influx of refugees is stretching capacity of humanitarian workers in Uganda. MORE

Apr. 4, 2013

United States offers reward of up to $5 million each for fugitive Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony and some of his top aides in Lord's Resistance Army rebel group; Kony is wanted by International Criminal Court. MORE

Jan. 22, 2013

Ugandan Army announces that its troops in Central African Republic have killed chief bodyguard of Joseph Kony, fugitive leader of Lord's Resistance Army. MORE

Nov. 28, 2012

Four terrorism suspects charged with killing 76 people in Uganda in 2010 say they were physically abused by FBI agents during interrogations in 2010 and 2011. MORE

Oct. 26, 2012

Ugandan government threatens to rethink its role in regional diplomacy after being accused of supporting rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo. MORE

Oct. 17, 2012

United Nations says Rwanda’s defense minister is commanding a rebellion in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that is being armed by Rwanda and Uganda, who sent troops to aid the insurgents in a deadly attack on United Nations peacekeepers; Uganda and Rwanda deny accusations. MORE

Sep. 14, 2012

Uganda's Nile River is one of the top spots for freestyle kayaking, a hybrid akin to skateboarding and surfing, which has Olympic aspirations; while most big-time freestyle kayaking spots liven up only under certain conditions, the Nile is open for business year round. MORE

Aug. 15, 2012

Uganda has been accused of buying poorly reconditioned, secondhand military helicopters at inflated prices, and the deaths of as many as seven air force personnel in three crashes are raising new questions. MORE

Aug. 14, 2012

Ugandan military has shifted heavy weaponry, including assault aircraft, into Somalia over the past few weeks, vowing to strike a final and decisive blow against the Shabab Islamist militant group; officials report that of four military helicopters that took off from Uganda for Somalia, only one made it to a refueling stop in Kenya. MORE

Aug. 13, 2012

Ugandan marathoner Stephen Kiprotich wins the men's race at the London Games, giving Uganda its first gold in London and its second ever; Kenya's Abel Kirui and his countryman Wilson Kipsang take silver and bronze, respectively. MORE

Aug. 3, 2012

American-financed report finds that Uganda is one of two African countries, along with Chad, where AIDS rates are rising; results raise questions about the effectiveness of the United States' AIDS-prevention programs in fighting the disease there. MORE

Jul. 31, 2012

Six more patients thought to have the highly infectious Ebola virus have been hospitalized days after investigators confirm outbreak of the disease in western Uganda; officials say possible cases of Ebola, at first concentrated in a single village, are now being reported in more villages. MORE

Jul. 29, 2012

Ugandan government announces that an outbreak of the rare and deadly Ebola virus has killed 14 people in midwestern Uganda; the strain of the virus, which in recent years has killed at a rate often above 70 percent of those infected, has been identified as Ebola Sudan, one of the virus’s more common strains. MORE

Jul. 27, 2012

Africa will be represented at the Little League World Series for the first time, after team from Lugazi, Uganda, is cleared by the State Department to travel to the tournament; visa issues kept Uganda out of the tournament in 2011. MORE

Jul. 7, 2012

Hundreds of soldiers form the army of the Democratic of Congo flee across the border into Uganda in an embarrassing retreat from rebel forces; Ugandan troops quickly strip the soldiers of their guns and are trying to figure out what to do with them. MORE

Jun. 27, 2012

Rescue workers in Uganda decide to await the arrival of bulldozers before continuing their search for about 100 people who remain missing the day after landslides in the eastern district of Bududa. MORE

Jun. 26, 2012

At least 18 people are killed in eastern Uganda when a landslide buries several villages. MORE

Jun. 9, 2012

People of Ojuru, Uganda, are turning to traditional healers for nodding disease, a mysterious ailment that has stalked the brains and nervous systems of thousands of children in this part of Africa; debilitating disease stunts growth, causes mental retardation and sets off sudden seizures; no one knows what causes it, and it appears to attack only children; since January, more than 200 Ugandan children have died from the disease. MORE

May. 14, 2012

Ugandan forces capture Caesar Acellam, senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army, after brief fight with rebels near the border between Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. MORE

Apr. 30, 2012

One hundred of America’s elite Special Operations troops, aided by night vision scopes and satellite imagery, are helping African forces find a wig-wearing, gibberish-speaking fugitive rebel commander named Joseph Kony; he has been hiding out in the jungle for years with a band of child soldiers and a harem of dozens of child brides; no one knows exactly where he is, but over the past few months the American forces, who play an advise and assist role, have helped diminish his ability to direct his 300 or so fighters. MORE

Apr. 8, 2012

Profile of Ugandan entrepreneur Andrew Rugasira, chief executive of Good African Coffee, who is trying to prove that the forces of private enterprise can bring significant development to sub-Saharan Africa and ultimately replace foreign aid. MORE

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